. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 35. Forests and forestry. â Jl M o 'J o X -3 O â¢/5 X r. O The only logical way wo have of produeinf? ehaiijre in the human mind is by education. It is well to invostio-ate and tabulate causers, but it is better to control and extinguish fires when they occur. To do these thino's there must be an oranization lare enough to cover the forest to be i)rotected. There must he a head to the organization and sufficient help to keep it going. There must be inspection, and there must be alert, interested, efficient men ready to do i)ronipt
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 35. Forests and forestry. â Jl M o 'J o X -3 O â¢/5 X r. O The only logical way wo have of produeinf? ehaiijre in the human mind is by education. It is well to invostio-ate and tabulate causers, but it is better to control and extinguish fires when they occur. To do these thino's there must be an oranization lare enough to cover the forest to be i)rotected. There must he a head to the organization and sufficient help to keep it going. There must be inspection, and there must be alert, interested, efficient men ready to do i)roniptly whatever must be done. Fires must be detected i)romi)tly, reported promptly, extinguished ])r()mi)tly. A force of helpers and sufficient equipment must be available at a mcmient's notice. Other details must be worked out and through all the details runs the human element that cannot be avoided. The point of contact may be established by education, and education will in ))revention. The fact remains that as long as forest fires occur we shall suffer all the loss that follows the burning of forest litter and growth. Un- fortuiuitely no one knows the extent of such loss. When a forest fire slarts no one knows where it may eiul or what calamity may he caused. No one can foretell what ex|)enses \\\\\\ be necessary to extinguish the forest fires of a coming season or year. The whole i)roi)osition is an uncertainty ami, when fires occur, their extinction is always an emer- gency. Emergency labor is always exj^ensive. As shown before, the average annual dii-ect from forest fires is close to half a million dollars. The indirect loss unquestionably runs into millions of dollars. Xo one knows what it would cost in Pennsylvania to ])revent all forest fires. It has been demonstrated that fire extinction may <'ost the C\)mmonwerdtli as much as $675,000 in one year. Certainly for less than $500,000 forest fires could be prevented and controlled to such an extent that di
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